The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Venture capital, private equity, just were not recruiting for those spaces. Wall Street has been pretty bad at recruiting black talent. RITHOLTZ: So is it safe to say that Wall Street, in general, but alternatives like private equity and venture capital, were not recruiting at historically black colleges and universities?

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. So I applied to Maryland State retirement.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

And your bio explains how you were recruited to Vanguard. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. And it’s paid off, it’s paid spades in terms of, it helps us make sure that we’re recruiting the right people, it helps us in terms of retaining folks. RITHOLTZ: Really interesting.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven. SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns.

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The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

Ilana Weinstein returns to tell us about all the competitive recruiting and superstar talent she’s been working with over the past couple of years. WEINSTEIN: Let me define what we do, because I feel like a fair misconception might be that as a recruiting firm, our job is to help people find jobs. WEINSTEIN: They probably will.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Meaning it would be a recruitment challenge. If you’re anywhere from an individual to a pension fund, saying how much do I have to save to retire? My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. He’s the genius in math. ASNESS: Yeah.

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